Harold Prince Musical Quotations

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.